TMPGEnc Plus does not end

[Lamont Cranston]

I mpeg 2 NTSC DVD encoded a 18.6G AVI (compressed with Mainconcept's DV coded DV Type 2) under win 2k. TMPGEnc ran to the end with the remaining time = 0 and 100% but the elapsed time kept running. If I hit stop or try to close I get the message "abort encoding?". Eventually I answered Abort Encoding yes and the mpeg file was fine. TMPGEnc works fine on small files. This has happened everythime I encode a large avi file. Anyone run into this one?

[bugster]

You dont say how long you waited between the remaining time = 0 and you accepting 'abort encoding' I have seen TmpGenc take several minutes from apparently finishing the encoding to actually stopping the elapsed time, with the exact same symptoms you describe, especially encoding large DV format files. CPU utilisation drops to almost zero during this time and I cant say I saw any hardrive activity either so I have no idea what it is doing, but give it long enough and it does stop. How long is long enough is up to you!

[Jestorius]

1 day. Is it normal? Guess not.

[bugster]

no, 1 dat is definatley not normal, about the longest I have ever waited is 15 minutes! I guess your problem is different from what I have seen then. Sorry I cant help further

[Lamont Cranston]

You dont say how long you waited between the remaining time = 0 and you accepting 'abort encoding' I have seen TmpGenc take several minutes from apparently finishing the encoding to actually stopping the elapsed time, with the exact same symptoms you describe, especially encoding large DV format files. CPU utilisation drops to almost zero during this time and I cant say I saw any hardrive activity either so I have no idea what it is doing, but give it long enough and it does stop. How long is long enough is up to you!

I waited over a minute for it to end which is a lot of grinding for a 1.8GHz Pentium 4. Next time I will give it several minutes.